Business Analyst

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Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Analyst
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 1-2 days a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 207

Story Behind the Need

• Business group: GTA – GBME FICC& Equity Trading
• Project: Data migration project for RDARR purpose, data enrichment project, mapping the data in the process flow, creating lineages to finalize the data flow.
• Reason for request: new requirement

Candidate Value Proposition

• Exposure in Market risk & counter party credit risk domain
• Understanding the trade data flow from source to risk applications
• Act as a Primary contact to deliver this project.

Typical Day in Role

• Collaborate with other teams within risk management to gather requirements and provide updates on progress
• Working alongside other BAs, developers, and project managers
• Generate business requirements and documents that align to the policies to ensure that the new technology meets the needs of the business lines as they adapt to comply with policy
• Analyzing existing processing and identifying opportunities for optimization
• Work alongside developers and technical experts to develop functions or technical requirements that will provide the reference for new technology and new software
• Review test results and identify corrective steps for complex issues across application boundaries
• Utilize strong written and verbal communication skills when conducting and facilitating presentations to stakeholders and management
• Exercise initiative and sound judgment in the execution of project plans and schedules

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 5-7 years’ experience Data analysis (preferred) OR BSA
• Good hands-on experience with DB – PostgreSQL
• 3+ years’ recent and relevant experience with capital markets risk and financial risk.
• Recent hands-on working experience with Unix/Linux is required
• Basic python programming
• Created Documentation for migration projects.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Previous experience RDARR projects
• Data migration project exposure

Soft Skills:

• Verbal and written communication is required
• Good teamwork
• Flexibility and ability to adapt quickly to changes in requirements
• Proactive problem solver

Best vs Average:

• Candidates with Data analysis experience in Data migration project & RDARR projects

Degrees or certifications:

• bachelor’s degree in a related field required.